diff --git a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
index 562e96246bf0..d16f65e4a93e 100644
--- a/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
+++ b/pkgs/top-level/perl-packages.nix
@@ -3279,6 +3279,13 @@ let
       url = mirror://cpan/authors/id/A/AN/ANDK/CPAN-2.27.tar.gz;
       sha256 = "b4b1471a2881e2d616f59e723879b4110ae485b79d5962f115119c28cf69e07f";
     };
+    patches = [
+      (fetchpatch {
+        url = "https://patch-diff.githubusercontent.com/raw/andk/cpanpm/pull/133.diff";
+        name = "patch-YAML-modules-default-for-LoadBlessed-was-changed-to-false";
+        sha256 = "0i8648cwshzzd0b34gyfn68s1vs85d8336ggk2kl99awah1ydsfr";
+      })
+    ];
     propagatedBuildInputs = [ ArchiveZip CPANChecksums CPANPerlReleases Expect FileHomeDir LWP LogLog4perl ModuleBuild TermReadKey YAML YAMLLibYAML YAMLSyck ];
     meta = {
       description = "Query, download and build perl modules from CPAN sites";